Egbert makes nationwide list

Lake Roosevelt High School basketball standout Ty Egbert has been nominated as a player at McDonald’s All American Games next month, when McDonald’s sends the best high school players in the country to Chicago.

Final selection will happen this month.

Ricardo Colunga, the manager of the Omak McDonald’s, made the announcement Saturday night at Lake Roosevelt between the boys’ and girls’ basketball games. He presented a framed certificate to Egbert.

The 6-foot, 8-inch senior, already recruited to play for the University of Idaho Vandals, is a key player for the LRHS Raiders, on the varsity since his freshman year.

Some 600 players have been nominated nationwide, from whom a selection process will winnow 24 boys and 24 girls to play at Chicago’s United Center March 28. Thirty-six come from Washington state.